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School Board will hear update on alternative learning, construction

February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Through this process, the Pinecrest Center was renamed the Center for Innovative Learning at Pinecrest. The facility now offers a short-term program for assigned short-term students to try and transition them back to their home school. Additional personnel were hired to provide more counseling opportunities for students.

The long-term alternative school for all grade levels now provides more virtual learning along with traditional learning – as well as therapeutic counseling and career counseling. The school district has also expanded its collaborations with at least eight social service, faith-based and law enforcement programs.

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Online learning a godsend

December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

As a grandparent guardian, this holiday season I am thankful for virtual learning and how it has helped my child succeed. Our grandson is an active 10-year-old Boy Scout who participates in a bowling league and, as he says, “has one true friend.” That’s because he has Asperger syndrome, or high-functioning autism.

He is extremely bright, has a 95 percent average overall in all his classes and loves school. He attends South Carolina Connections Academy, a virtual public charter school that was recommended by his therapist, and it has been perfect for him. He was being bullied at school, had trouble with transitions, and after many discussions with administrators we were at our wits’ end.

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New Berkeley County high school program offers college credit

August 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The new school recently received a grant of nearly $53,000 from the S.C. Department of Education to help students at risk of dropping out of school.

The grant will pay for four wireless virtual learning portals and a laptop loaner program that provides broadband access for students who do not have Internet access at home.

“The Berkeley County Middle College was selected for a grant because this concept is an evidence-based model that has proven to be very effective on a national level in helping to move at-risk students forward in their educational careers,” said John Lane, administrator for the grant program at the S.C. Department of Education. “This model has been proven to help provide a seamless transition to college for underserved students, as it gives them the tools they need and prepares them for the rigors of college coursework.”

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